Advertising device.



No. 648,677: Patented May I, moo.

. r. ALCUCK.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

(Application fi1ed -Tuly 7, 1899.)

(No Model.)

' pear to move or same general position,

the following is a specification.

"by means of lamps which cylinder.

' rial or otherwise, may be outlined by various groups of lamps,

be given to them by the operation of the mul- 1 tiple switch. Thus one grpuping of lamps other groupings of lamps superimposed on the A E ECEQ ruunnmcu ALOOCK, or LONDON ENG LAND ADVERTlSlNGDEVlCE.

SIECIFICATlON forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,677,

dated May 1, 1900.

Application filed July l, 1899. Serial No. 723,065, (No model-l .To all whont it may concern;-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK ALcocK, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Putney, London, in the county of Surrey, England have invented Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which This invention has reference to improvements in advertising devices of the kind in which designs are rendered-visible at night are usually so arranged as to themselves form or outline the designs or so as to throw light through translucent lines or portions of opaque sheet or bOZtI'd'IllOHHtGd in front of them, which portions form the designs. j

According to this invention the illuminated. designs or portions of them are caused to aptravel by means of a suitable arrangement-of the lamps and by providing for their successive lighting and extinction.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings shows a diagram illustrating an arrangement according to this invention, the switch being shown'connected up to the various circuits, so as to cause the figure to appear to raise his hat. Fig, 2 is a development of the switch- It will be obvious that any dcsig ns, pictoand apparent motion may may outline a figure in one position, and

first group may show the same figure in the but in difierent attitudes, each different and successive group being connected to separate and successive. contact-stops on a rotary' multiple switch, by rotating the handle of which the figure will be made to appear to take up the diifereut attitudes in succession.

The drawings illustrate a representation of the head and shoulders of a man on tlined-in three attitudes by means of lamps. Certain of the lamps are common to all three attitudes, and these are shown in full lines. Others, which are shown in full lines and sectioned or hatched, are common to the second and third attitudes, those which are only lighted up when the figure is shown in one of ..board and also in difierent attitudes,

shown in one of its the three attitudes being indicated by dotted lines. In some cases each group of lamps may delineate the figure orjdesign in slightly-(lit.- ferent positions as a whole upon the showso as to give the efiectofthe figure moving along' bodily, as well as assuming different attitudes. i

1, 2, 3, 4:, and 5 are groups of lamps the circuits of which are controlled by a suitablyadjusted switch (3, so as to produce the effect of a man raising his hat,'.the switch being caused to complete the circuits of the groups of lamps 2, 3, 4, and 5 successively, the breaking of the circuit of each group occurring simultaneouslyor approximately simultaneously with the completion of the circuit of the other group. lhe switch 6 comprims a cylinder 7, portions of thec'ylinder being cut away, so that some of thecontacts' 8, that bear thereon, will be out of contact duringpart of the revo- -lut'ion and the groups of lamps they control unilluminated.

that is rotated by suitable'means,

The group of lamps 1 remains lighted up as long as the device is in operation, and the group of lamps 5 is only lighted up when the groups of lamps 3 or 4 are illuminated;

In representing moving or gated lamp-bulbs opaque facia with with rearwardly 'tions between which the several groups of lamps are arranged may be employed to assist in the delineation of delicate or intricate figures or designs, the group of lamps illuminatiug each separate position of the design being connectedto separate contact-pieces of a multiple switch, as described.

What I claim is- 1. In an illuminated advertising device, the combination with the representation of a figs ure in several attitudes or positions whichwould be successively taken up by the figure in making a given movement, electric lamps arranged on a number of circuits and one or more of which is common to two or more attitudes or positions'of the figure and others of which are only lighted up when the several attitudcs or positions and a switch controlling thelamp-cirtraveling figures and the like according to this invention elon- ICU figure is cuits, the movable contact of which will com- .plete each ofseveral of the circuits in con-. secutive order, and approximately simultaneously with the breaking of each preceding v 5 circuit, as set forth.

2. In an advertising device, the combination of several groups of electric incandescent v lamps so arranged on several circuits as to form or illuminate the outline of a design or IO figure, or portions thereof, in different'attitudes some of said groups being common to two or more attitudes with switching mech: anism, by the operation of which the group of lumps on one circuit are switched ofi simultaneously, or nearly simultaneously, with 1' 5 the switching on of the circuit of the 5110- ceeding group of lamps thereby making the design or figure appearto assume different attitudes, substantially as described.

Witnesses PERCY E. MATTocKs, EDMUND S. SNEWIN. 

